Governments DivisionPartnering with the SDCs

Presented to the SDC Steering CommitteeFebruary 17, 2011

Kimberly Moore

Assistant Division Chief, Recurring Programs

Christopher Pece

Senior Technical Advisor

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Introduction to Governments Division

• Main Purposes of Governments Division programs

– Provide economic statistics about governments (approximately

90,000 state and local governments)

– Are the public counterpart to business, industry, and services

economic data

– Follow the activity of governments over time

• Response is voluntary

• Virtually no confidentiality restrictions

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Governments Division Programs

• Base Programs: Census of Governments/related annual and quarterly programs

– Finance Data – revenues, expenditures, debt, & assets

– Employment Data – number of employees & payroll

– Organizational Data – number of governments & characteristics

• Reimbursable Programs

– 17 programs conducted on an annual, biannual, or quarterly basis

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Base ProgramsUS State* County* Place

Every 5 Years

Census of Governments X X X XNumber of Units,

Employment, FinanceAnnual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll

X X X X Employment, wages, etc.

Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances

X X X Revenue, expenditures, etc.

Annual Survey of State Government Finances

X X Revenue, expenditures, etc.

Consolidated Federal Funds Report

X X XFederal expenditures,

obligations, & contingent liabilities

Federal Aid to States Report X X Federal expendituresPublic Elementary-

Secondary Education Finance Survey

X X X X Revenue, expenditures, etc.

State and Local Government Public-Employee

Retirement System SurveyX X X X Contributions, assets, etc.

State Government Tax Collections Survey

X X Tax revenue

Quarterly Public-Employee Retirement Systems Survey

X Contributions, assets, etc.

Quarterly Tax Survey X X Tax revenueQuarterly

Annual

Frequency Survey/ProgramData Available For:

Data Items Included

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Reimbursable Programs

USState

*County

*Place

Academic Libraries Survey X XExpenditures, staffing,

circulation, etc.NCES - (Dept of

Education)Juvenile Residential Facility

CensusX X Facility characteristics OJJDP - (DOJ)

Annual Survey of Jails X X X Jails and inmates BJS - (DOJ)

Criminal Justice Expenditure and Employment Survey

X Finance and employment BJS - (DOJ)

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Health Insurance Cost

StudyX X X X

Health plans, premiums, benefits, and enrollment

AHRQ

National Public Education Financial Survey

X X X X Revenue, expendituresNCES - (Dept of

Education)

Non-fiscal surveys of the Common Core of Data

X XDirectory, membership,

teachers, staff, dropouts, graduates

NCES - (Dept of Education)

State Library Agencies Survey X XExpenditures, staffing,

governance, etc.Institute of Museum and Library Services

QuarterlyFederal Assistance Award

Data SystemX X X X

Federal expenditures or obligations.

OMB

Annual

Biennial

Frequency Survey/ProgramData Available For:

Data Items Included Sponsoring Agency

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Importance of GOVS Data

• Tells the story of the fiscal welfare of federal, state, and local government

• Constitutes 12 percent of Gross Domestic Product

• Are the only source of comprehensive, uniform statistics on governments – we are the gold standard

• Helps policy makers make important, informed decisions

State Budgets: The Day of Reckoning

60 Minutes, CBS News

December 2010

How GOVS Collects Data

• Paper Form

• Web Instrument

• Administrative-type Records

• Supplemental Sources

– Manual compilation of government financial standards

– Manual compilation of other available sources (e.g., Mergent’s, Moody’s, other debt-related information)

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Manual Compilation

A Day in the Life

of a Governments Division Analyst

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A Day in the Life of a Governments Division Analyst

GOVS /SDC Recent Partnerships

• State of Tennessee Data Collection

• GOVS U.S. Territories Project

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Future GOVS/SDC Partnership Opportunities

• Increase state and local government response

• Advocate GOVS data and educate users

• Promote the citation of GOVS data when contacted by media/researchers

• Provide feedback on dissemination plans/tools

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Questions for You

• What do you need from us to help you?

• What materials can we provide to best explain our data?

• How can we best disseminate our data?

Questions for Us?

Kimberly Moore

Assistant Division Chief, Recurring Programs

kimberly.p.moore@census.gov

301-763-7643

Christopher Pece

Senior Technical Advisor

christopher.pece@census.gov

301-763-7330

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